Bangalore, Jan 29 (PTI)
Actress Ranjitha today appeared before a court hearing her complaint against a former disciple of self-styled godman Nityananda over a sleaze video purportedly showing her with the controversial ascetic.
Ranjitha, in her complaint, had charged Lenin Karuppan, who had claimed to have shot the video, with criminal intimidation, attempted rape and criminal conspiracy and had said that the footage was morphed.
She appeared before Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Roopa in nearby Ramanagara and made a sworn declaration in connection with her complaint filed on December 30.
Since the statement was not completed, the Judge posted the case to February 19.
Ranjitha had also accused Lenin of attempted extortion and acts intended to insult the modesty of women.
She had alleged that Lenin made sexual advances towards her. When she threatened to complain against him to Nityananda, he displayed on his laptop "a few poorly shot videos of his molestation of two women Brahmacharis" and warned that she would see her own image in such videos if she dared to complain, Ranjitha had claimed.
The actress, who has starred only in Tamil films so far, alleged that she was unable to stay in Nityananda's ashram 'Dhyanapeetham' because of the sexual harassment and so she had to return to Chennai.
On February 2 last, while she was in Kerala for a film shoot, she was told by an ashram resident that an accomplice of Lenin had shown him certain photographs in which Nityananda was portrayed in a compromising position with her and sought Rs 20 crore for not releasing them to the media, she said.
She had also alleged that the purported video was "expertly-crafted to give no indication about its morphing."
Nityananda, who went into hiding in Himachal Pradesh, after TV channels aired the sleaze video in March last year was arrested later on various criminal charges, including rape.
Source: Deccan Herald
How is this fraud called an "ascetic" ? The guy lives in such luxury like a medievel king: with golden crowns, thrones, surrounded by young women(an men). Such arrogant display of wealth, especially by a so-called holy man, in front of so many poor people is shameful to say the least. That itself shows Nityananda is a fraud.
ReplyDeleteThis woman is clearly trying to mislead the judiciary. Instead of complaining against Lenin when the alleged incident happened, she is doing it now. She ahs the backing of the fraud swami. If she is really a decent woman she should expose the fraud Nityananda and save the lives of other women who are being abused by him. lenin must be applauded for bringing out the ugly faces of such so-called spiritual leaders who are disgracing our great religion.
ReplyDeleteRanjitha is experiencing the stockholm syndrome!!! She is herself a victim of abuse by this fraud... but instead of realizing that, she is defending him and trying to protect/save him from the law!! Sadly misguided!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.deccanherald.com/content/133858/im-not-one-cd.html
ReplyDeleteEleven months after he was clandestinely filmed making out with Tamil actress Ranjitha, Nithyananda on Tuesday denied it was he who featured in the CD in a compromising position with the woman.
Nithyananda’s claim also flies in the face of his own statement before the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in April 2010, when he admitted to his interrogators that he was the one who was filmed having sex with Ranjitha. In the 15-page statement, Nithyananda admitted, inter alia, to having had sex with Ranjitha several times as well as with 15 other women devotees.
“It was not me in the video. It is a morphed, manipulated, misrepresented video,” he repeatedly claimed in a press conference at his Bidadi ashram near here.
Resorting to humour, which bordered on the crude at times, he said, “The police should have asked the rape victim ‘If you were being raped why were you going to his room again and again for four years?’” The women devotees, who had gathered in large numbers, laughed and clapped.
The video, found to be authentic by the Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad, seemed to be of no consequence to Nithyananda and his counsel K V Dhananjay. With a peremptory dismissal of the FSL report, he said his own experts from the US had clearly denounced it as fake and had raised a lot of objections to its authenticity.
Out of nowhere also came the sudden statement that he was being blackmailed by “powerful people” who had demanded Rs 100 crore from him and later scaled it down to Rs 60 crore, but he had held his ground and refused to agree. Refusing to disclose names, Nithyananda said he had informed the police of this and since they could not do anything about it, he would reveal the names in a court.
Playing the victim, Nithyananda chose to blame everyone and everything else for his predicament. At different points in time during the press conference, he said he was being religiously persecuted “because of ideological differences”.
He said causing a dent in his popularity was not easy since he was one among the most-watched gurus in the world.
However, in his statement to the CID, of which Deccan Herald has a copy of, Nithyananda had clearly alluded to frequent sexual activity. He had also held his devotees responsible for demanding sex from him.
CID officers reacted saying: “When the matter is sub judice, why should it not be applicable to him?” They said there was scientific evidence to prove that the CD was genuine.
looks like Nithy would even get a waive off his bail condition next month and would travel all around the world again fooling people around the world... such a sad state of affairs.
if anyone has seen his press conference; can you post it here?